Credibility of Faith,Corporeal Thought,and Positive Views on"Shūmatsu No Hi"——An Interpretation of Ara Masahito's Subjectivity and Generational Assertion in the Early Post-war Ⅱ
During the early post-war,Ara Masahito,as the major role who planned and advanced numerous debates within the post-war Japanese literary arena,spearheaded plenty discussions such as"Politics and Literature Debate"in influential plat-forms under his guidance like Kindai Bungaku.Beyond the left-right divide,Ara Masahito positioned himself as the spokesper-son for the thirties and launched a comprehensive critique of literary predecessors.Ara Masahito,through the ideological transfor-mation of human body and taking experiences related to tenkō(conversion)and the war as the medium,emphasized unthinking the ideological assertions the people in their forties who either abandoned their faith before and during the war or collaborated with militarism.He adamantly refused blind faith and adherence to doctrines,in order to achieve the double sublation of both Japa-nese Marxism and Liberalism before and during the war,and also point straightly at the fight for dominance of post-war litera-ture.By referring to Japan's defeat as"Shūmatsu no hi"(the final days),he questioned developmentalism and progressivism,based on his war experiences and the inevitability of defeat.He also stressed a positive cognitive attitude towards the"Shūmatsu no hi",willingly bidding farewell to tradition and starting anew.Ara Masahito,representing the members of Kindai Bungaku,questioned the war responsibilities of literary predecessors on the moral level based on established facts and the across-war coher-ence of thought and actions,urging each individual to engage in self-revolution and self-reflection.This stands in stark contrast to Shin Nihon Bungakkai,who directed their self-criticism towards others based on their assumed leadership as a self-evident premise and faction as a feature,inevitably leading to hostility between the two sides.Since the post-war,the issue of war respon-sibility has gradually been diluted in Japan.Therefore,it is essential to return to the origins of the post-war period and empirical-ly examining this path of dilution,by which this paper also hopes to offer a new perspective for the study of post-war Japanese lit-erary arena history and intellectual history.
Ara Masahitosubjectivity assertiongenerational assertionwar experiencewar responsibility
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